As a member of zfgc since the says of invisionFree, I can't go back to the early times. I can't say I was a part of EzBoard. I don't KNOW what EzBoard is like, so for somebody to recreate something he has no clue about is pretty impossible. I won't lie, I really don't like this zfgc compared to the good old Summer '04 days. That was zfgc at its prime there, where people wanted to make games on a legendary forum, with a legendary game being created(OoT2D). Now that the faith in Barras has diminished to virtually nothing, there really isn't any reason to post games on this forum. I mean, come on. There are way better sites out there with a MUCH better rep than us currently. If someone were to post a pawsome game here, what are the chances of the rest of the net finding out? Its pretty slim.
ZFGC is a "Tell your friends" website. Its one of those things that you don't find while searching on the internet, but something you hear from a good friend. My best friend Al, aka rogueyoshi, told me about the #rom room on shellux before Windfyre. I found out #zfgc shortly after Vampuske, another member in #roms, told me there was a main room to it. Bam, now I'm in my first web community. It was great, it was awesome. But you know, awesome things can't last forever. N ow here we are, with this reincarnation of zfgc. I wish we could get back to the olden days, where everybody K.N.E.W. how to type proper english on the forum. I wish we could have random topics of LUE on the boards, sparked by walnut. I wish all the good old members were back, even though I'm pretty sure they don't remember me. But we can't, and thats what the entire community has to realize before we can get any better.
My personal goal for zfgc, is to build it to a respectable forum, then give it a respectable website, then give it some internet recognition. Yes, it'll be hard to do, seeing as the community has the "We wanna stay as a little group" mindset. But you know, if you want us to have better fangames, if you want us to have much more intelligent members, if you want us to actually take the time out to work on this site with all our hearts, then we need your help in assisting us. Everyday I log onto IRC, I hear some type of crap about somebody badmouthing me because I shouldn't have been admin. Yeah, I've never even BROWSED the forums that much, even back then. I was and am still a IRC man. But you've gotta understand that I WANT to help ZFGC with all my power, and that it saddens me to see members badmouthing me.
Have a little patience, we're trying to gather what we need to get this party started here. I really don't have the slightest clue as to why I wrote this long-ass rant, but I'll post it anyways. D:
When you leave ZFGC because it doesn't live up to your standards, your just making it worse. You may leave if you feel you need to, but I just want you to know that every member counts in the long run.
